{"id":778354,"date":"2025-05-21T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=778354"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:37:56","slug":"poem-if-i-am-killed-simply-for-living-let-death-be-kinder-than-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=778354","title":{"rendered":"Althea Davis: &#8216;If I am killed simply for living, let death be kinder than man.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>KINDER THAN MAN: <\/b><b>(ALTHEA DAVIS)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;And God<\/em><br \/>\n<em>please let the deer<\/em><br \/>\n<em>on the highway<\/em><br \/>\n<em>get some kind of heaven.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Something with tall soft grass<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and sweet reunion.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Let the moths in porch lights<\/em><br \/>\n<em>go someplace<\/em><br \/>\n<em>with a thousand suns,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>that taste like sugar<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and get swallowed whole.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>May the mice<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in oil and glue<\/em><br \/>\n<em>have forever dry, warm fur<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and full bellies.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If I am killed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>for simply living,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>let death be kinder<\/em><br \/>\n<em>than man.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OH84MFJGsKg?si=F0lEfq6jeZjh2mF3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINDER THAN MAN: (ALTHEA DAVIS) &#8216;And God please let the deer on the highway get some kind of heaven. Something with tall soft grass and sweet reunion. Let the moths in porch lights go someplace with a thousand suns, that taste like sugar and get swallowed whole. May the mice in oil and glue have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,18,21,23,25],"tags":[26,27,30,31,32,35,36,37],"class_list":["post-778354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-ethics","category-kisnship","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-compassion","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-free-living","tag-protection","tag-sentience","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778354"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778363,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778354\/revisions\/778363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/778359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}